Francesca is a Registered Professional Counsellor(RPC) with the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association (CPCA). She holds a specialty in addiction/substance abuse counselling and is a Life Skills Instructor. Francesca’s commitment to clients is to provide a safe and respectful environment to explore and experience feelings and perceptions. Showing sincere interest in the comfort of her clients is her focus.
Francesca believes that every situation every experience no matter how difficult or painful, is an opportunity for growth and change.
Francesca’s counselling practice includes working with individuals who are faced with issued including:
- Addictions/substance abuse
- Anxiety/depression
- Anger
- Relationship challenges
- Life goals
- balancing work and home
- loss and grief
- self worth issues
- Emotional and stress eating
- Trauma
Francesca believes that by dealing with the underlying emotions behind your choices and behaviours, you can overcome "negative" behaviours or learn to better cope with the behaviours of others. Counselling helps you learn about yourself, so you can make the changes to become the kind of person you really want to be. You can become strong, confident, balanced, and better able to cope with lifes challenges.
Life is full of changes. Good emotional and mental health helps us find our balance and stay in control, even during turbulent times.
If you would like to make an appointment, Francesca would be more then happy to talk to you.
“Being listened to, feeling truly “heard” is a valuing experience, affirming our essential worth as a human. This in itself is healing.”